FOR TEACHING SPANISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
-- a guide to current SLA research & instructional materials for college level Spanish
||RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS
||ABOUT THE SPANISH LANGUAGE
||EXERCISES AND ACTIVITIES ON THE WEB
-- Online Journals
-- Current SLA Research: Papers and Presentations
-- Instructional Resources
-- Spanish Linguistics
|-- Beginning and Intermediate Spanish
-- Readings and Texts
-- Civilization and Culture
-- Advanced Language and Linguistics
-- Mass Media
|RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS||
| Professional Associations and
Association for Applied Linguistics)
Association of Teachers of Spanish and
|ACTFL (American Council on
the Teaching of Foreign Languages)
|CAL (Center for Applied
|CALICO (Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium)
|CARLA (Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisistion)
Association of Second Language Teachers/L'Association canadienne de
professeurs de langues secondes)
|EuroSLA (European Second Language Association)
International Commission on Second Language Acquisition)
|The Linguist List (Language Resources)
Society of America
Applied Language Studies. Victoria University (Wellington, New
Zealand). Second Language Learning, Teaching, and Assessment.
(Summer Institute of Linguistics)
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| Many online journals
offer free access to table of contents and abstracts. Check with
your library to see if you also have access to full text of the
journals listed below through database subscriptions or e-journal
|ADFL Bulletin Online
(Association of Departments of Foreign Languages)
(Oxford Journals online)
Calico Review (reviews of software)
|CÍRCULO de lingüística
aplicada a la comunicación (clac)
|Essential Teacher; TESOL Journal (abstracts); TESOL
Matters; TESOL Quarterly (abstracts)
|Hong Kong Journal of
|Journal for Language
|Journal of Second Language
Learning and Technology
(Cambridge University Press) -- table of contents & abstracts
|Language Teaching Research
(Table of contents and abstracts are available
Language Teacher online (Japan)
|The Modern Language Journal (table
of contents & abstracts)
|Reading in a Foreign Language
Reading Matrix: An
International Online Journal
|Revista Iberoamericana de
|TESL-EJ (Teaching English
as a Second or
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|Current SLA Research: Papers and Presentations|
Psychololinguistically Valid Classroom Instruction. SLATE Lecture
Series, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved
May 27, 2005, from http://slate.lang.uiuc.edu/LectureSeries/powerpoints/slate_files/frame.htm
The University of Illinois Lecture Series web site for the SLATE program has archived the Powerpoint presentation from Doughty's 2004 lecture. The Powerpoint provides an overview of the changing focus of L2 research. Doughty is particularly concerned with the reliability of such studies in terms of methodology and presumptions about the effect of formal instruction on L2 acquisition
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Vivian. Second Language
Acquisition Bibliography (SLABIB).
Resources Information Center)
Florencia. SLA Bibliography.
del sistema fonético y del
sistema fonológico del español como lengua
Joaquim. Enseñanza de
Lengua Extranjera y Enseñanza de la Lengua Asistida por
Glenn. Resources in Language Testing Page.
|Internet Resources for Language
and Learners (The Subject Centre for Languages, University of
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|Instructional Resources: Multimedia, Software, Templates, and Lesson Plans|
|The websites linked below
offer many resources for teachers of Spanish as L2 including complete
lesson plans often with multimedia
links that could be used to enhance in-class activities or assigned to
students as homework. Other sites offer downloads of freeware,
shareware or demo software that can be used in the creation of CALL
activities for students of Spanish.
Website (Education Office of Australia and New Zealand, Advisory
Services of the Ministry of Education of Spain)
This website offers downloadable lesson plans (usually in Word format) for Spanish teachers and links to other websites that could be incorporated into culture modules. Although many of the resources are for primary and secondary school there are others that could be used in teaching college level Spanish as well.
Although the focus of this website is second language instruction in general, there is a section devoted to each of the more commonly taught languages including Spanish. The list of links includes many Spanish language media websites such as radio from a wide range of countries. There are also links to worthwhile websites dedicated to acquisition of Spanish as L2.
Foreign Language Home offers information and links for teachers of foreign language in general. Items include recent news and developments in the field, software reviews, as well as links dedicated to the instruction of particular languages as L2. The Spanish section provides links to many online activities, including quizzes and games, that could be assigned to students for in-class work or as homework.
|Free Spanish Teacher
Provided by Visual Link Spanish™
Although this website is aimed at teachers of Spanish at the secondary level some of the available resources could also be used to create activities for beginning students at the college level. There are demos of web-based exercises and games for verb practice and vocabulary learning as well as a weekly newsletter. Some of the activities require registration. There are also software modules than can be purchased.
| The GISMO
Project: Guildhall Interactive Software for Multimedia
The exercises in the Spanish section of this CALL demonstration site are produced using Java applets. In addition to the usual self-correcting formats, the Virtual CALL Library offers exercises that allow students to work on pronunciation. Students first listen to a short phrase. Installation of a Java plug-in is required for students to be able to record and listen to their own pronunciation; full instructions are available here -- http://languages.londonmet.ac.uk/CALL/call/instalation.htm
Hot Potatoes is an easy to use free software (check the website for use guidelines) that generates self-correcting quizzes in several formats: cloze tests, fill in the blank, jumbled sentences, matching, as well as crossword puzzles. The website offers free download of the software for Windows platform, Linux, and a beta version for MAC OS X. The Hot Potatoes site offers detailed tutorials for the different quiz formats.
|Hot Potatoes Exercises to
Accompany the Caminos Textbook
This website offers demonstrations of the many formats of Hot Potatoes and how they could be used to provide practice and feedback to students in beginning Spanish. The topics are general enough that the fact that the exercises were developed for a specific textbook is not a drawback.
|Internet Activities for
Information about the development of internet-based activities is the focus of this web site. There is a discussion about the use of the internet in foreign language instruction followed by a list of links of activities developed by students following the protocols suggested in the lesson planning section.
literatura: Servidor de recursos educativos para el profesor y el
alumno de lengua y literatura http://www.vicentellop.com/
The language portion of this website offers instructional modules on all aspects of Spanish grammar. There are downloadable exercises in Word format as well as online self correcting exercises that utilize Java applets.
Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
As stated on its homepage MERLOT is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. It provides links to online learning materials that have been submitted by instructional faculty and accompanied by a peer review. Many of the online materials have linked exercises and assessments. Some of the Spanish examples utilize multimedia such as music or brief film clips as a point of departure to assess student comprehension.
Quia offers subscription based access to templates to create many formats of self-correcting quizzes including flashcards, matching, concentration (memory), word search, cloze exercises, hangman, jumbled words, and scavenger hunt among others. Although access to the quiz creation feature requires a subscription of $49 per year, samples of quizzes created with Quia are available on the web site and can be freely accessed by both instructors and students.
|REACH: Recursos para la
enseñanza y el aprendizaje de las culturas hispánicas
REACH is a website dedicated to Spanish language and culture. The seven modules that have been developed consist of thematically grouped links to different aspects of the Spanish language as well as cultural information about the countries where Spanish is spoken. There are also two modules dedicated to Spanish language instruction.
This is a comprehensive website with a bibliography of articles on the challenges of teaching native speakers and quasi native speakers. Additionally, citations from ERIC have been selected for materials related to the teaching of native speakers. There is also a section on curriculum development with a list of textbooks for native speakers.
profesor de español como lengua extranjera
This website is dedicated to the teaching of Spanish as a second language. There are many activities and lesson plans that can be downloaded (mostly in PowerPoint and Word document format). Many of the lesson plans are associated with multimedia materials such as popular songs and films that should be easily available to instructors through their institutional media center.
|Virtual CALL Library
Software and software reviews are the focus of this website. The downloadable software is either freeware or shareware. There is a brief description of the software and then a link to the provider's website. There are also reviews of commercial software.
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|ABOUT THE SPANISH LANGUAGE
Consultas de la Lengua Española de Ciudad Seva
This web site offers links to a variety of resources: reference tools, grammars, dictionaries, spelling checkers, and automatic translators. It is a useful for both instructor and students in advanced language and literature classes.
|Centro Virtual Cervantes: Biblioteca del
profesor de español
Different aspects of teaching Spanish as a second language are covered on this web site. There are links to pedagogical activities, studies on ELE (enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera), and announcements of upcoming conferences on the teaching of Spanish.
|Centro Virtual Cervantes: El español en
There are two major points of interest on this website: the use of Spanish in the United States (for example, in mass media) and the pedagogy of Spanish as a second language. There are links to full text articles dealing with both topics.
Virtual Cervantes: Morderse la lengua
This website offers examples of language abuse in mass media and advertising. The examples could form the basis for interesting discussions in advanced language and lingusitics classes.
Cervantes: La revista del español en el mundo
In addition to offering access to articles in the current and past issues of the Cuadernos Cervantes the website offers a section en ELE (enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera) and links to current articles related to the Spanish language and the teaching of Spanish from other news sources.
español en el
El español en el mundo is an annual publication of the Instituto Cervantes. The journal offers a wide coverage of articles related to the Spanish language including ELE.
|Ethnologue -- Spanish
The Ethnologue web site gives comprehensive information on the dissemination of the Spanish language in the world including where it is spoken and the number of speakers. Additionally, it is possible to look at the language situation of particular countries.
This comprehensive website dedicated to the Spanish language offers a variety of resources including links to grammars, dictionaries, history of the language, review of recent articles in the press, and a word of the day feature to develop vocabulary.
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|This section contains
links to both current and historical grammars. There are also
aids for students such as verb conjugators.
Gramatical de la Lengua
Española (Salvador Fernández Ramírez)
panhispánico de dudas (Real Academia Española)
(Universidad de las Palmas)
|Gramática de la
Lengua Castellana de Antonio de Nebrija (1492)
|Gramática de la
Lengua Castellana compuesta por la Real Academia Española (1771)
de la lengua
castellana destinada al uso de los americanos
verbología hispánica (verb conjugator)
Lengua y Literatura Castellanas (Biblioteca Manes)
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de uso del español actual. Madrid: Ediciones SM
An added feature of this (monolingual Spanish) dictionary is that it offers a brief discussion of the current usage of lexical items including recommendations for avoiding anglicisms.
This web site provides access to several different dictionaries including a thesaurus, bilingual dictionaries for both Spanish/English and Spanish/French, as well as a specialized dictionary of medical terms. A list follows.
Diccionario de la lengua española, de sinónimos y de antónimos
Diccionarios bilingües: español inglés, inglés español, español francés y francés español
Diccionario de medicina
Based on work done by the TALP Group at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, the Spanish database for WordNet offers very complete entries for lexical items, including grammatical function, with a gloss in English.
|Página de los
diccionarios (José Antonio Millán)
This website maintains up to date links to online Spanish dictionaries of all types, including regionalisms and slang. There is also a list of recently published dictionaries available in print.
regionalismos de la lengua española
Full access to the dictionary is available only through subscription. However, the demo offers access to a large number of lexical items.
WordReference provides access to several dictionary databases through a single search interface. These include a dictionary of synonyms, several bilingual dictionaries including Spanish/Portuguese, Spanish/English, and Spanish/French, as well as the capability of searching for a term that appears in the definition of any lexical item.
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| Spanish Linguistics
|Base de datos
sintácticos del español actual: Características
generales de la cláusula
The manual that accompanies this web site, a corpus of contemporary texts from the Archivo de Textos Hispánicos de la Universidad de Santiago (ARTHUS), provides an excellent overview of Spanish syntax with examples of different types of syntactic structures. Use of the database requires registration.
|Centro Virtual Cervantes:
Congresos de la lengua
The Congresses of Sevilla (1992), Zacatecas (1997), Valladolid (2001), and Rosario (2004) are represented on this web site with summary information, press releases, and full text of presentations.
|Centro Virtual Cervantes:
Voces y letras hispánicas
There are three sections of linguistic interest in this module of CVC: Los sonidos, an introduction to Spanish phonetics; Historia, a brief history of the Spanish language; and Las palabras, an introduction to word origins including the contributions of Amerindian lanauges. There are accompanying audio files that explain the text and images displayed on the screen.
español (Mark Davies, Brigham Young University)
This corpus project is based on data from the 13th century to the year 2000 and contains over 100 million words. Advanced search strategies include collocation, grammatical category, and frequency, among others.
lingüística del español
This comprehensive website is part of Red IRIS ( Interconexión de los Recursos Informáticos), a program of the National Office for Research and Development in Spain. On this site are links to research studies on Spanish linguistics, virtual libraries, linguistic corpora, dictionaries, and other databases of linguistic interest.
|Grupo de Estructuras de
Datos y Lingüística
Computacional (Lematizador, Flexionador, Conjugador, Desambiguador)
This web site is the result of collaborations in the area of computational linguistics at the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. There are several modules which provide for input and analysis: a morphological tagger and analyzer, an inflectioner (for nouns), a verb conjugator, a lexical database for morphological relationships, and a morphosyntactic disambiguator.
Sounds of Spanish
Excellent audiovisual materials are available on this web site that could be used for instruction in Spanish phonetics or comparative English/Spanish phonetics. There is a Flash animated articulary diagram for each consonant or vowel together with a text description of the articulation of the sound. Both vowels and consonants are pronounced in the context of a word.
|SIL. Materiales para la
enseñanza de la fonética general.
SIL offers materials for a complete course in general linguistics online. The materials are in a variety of formats -- web pages, downloadable PDF files, and hyperlinked audio files. Although the course does not deal with Spanish specifically because the explanatory texts are in Spanish they could be a valuable source of instructional material for an advanced class in Spanish linguistics.
An Online Lexical Resource
This corpus is a research project of the Department of Education of Spain, the Autonomous University of Barcelona with collaboration of the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, CA. It is an online lexical resource for Spanish based on the concept of frame semantics as illustrated in the corpus evidence for each lexical item.
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AND ACTIVITIES ON THE WEB
|The web pages linked
below offer instructional materials for self-instruction of Spanish as
L2. They could also be used in formal language instruction to
supplement textbook and classroom activities. Many of the
exercises are self correcting which allows students to work
|Aula de lengua
CVC offers modules for language instruction at all levels from primary school to adult learners of Spanish as a second language. There are text-based materials such as short readings and interviews as well as interactive, self-correcting exercises.
Español para principiantes
It is not apparent whether or not these exercises were designed to accompany the textbook of the same name, however, since the exercises are general in nature and self contained they would be of benefit to any student in beginning Spanish. The exercises require Flash 5, a free download. The exercises provide instant feedback and hints for correction.
|Cuentos para todos
The readings and exercises on this web site are more suited for instruction at the primary/secondary level but they would also be good examples for college level students studying the teaching of Spanish. The reading selections themselves offer no enhancements such as highlighted text or illustrations. The self-correcting exercises are very brief; some check comprehension while others check mastery of grammatical structures.
(Mariano Vindel, Junta de Andalucía)
The purpose of this web site is to stimulate interest in reading at the primary school level. There are many word games on this web site that such as jumbled sentences.
Benenati, Lewis & Clark College)
This web site provides a quick reference grammar for students of intermediate level Spanish. It includes comments about common native speaker errors such as spelling and placement of written accents as well as problem areas for Spanish L2 students.
Spanish: A free online
Although this is a commercial web site that offers instructional materials for sale there are are many free lessons and self-correcting quizzes, including audio files to learn pronunciation and quizzes on basic grammar structures.
arriba: Spanish Language Exercises
The exercises on this web site have been developed to accompany the ¡Arriba! textbook (Canadian edition). However, they could be used by students enrolled in beginning Spanish classes using other textbooks. Many of the exercises request written input from students with an option to click for audio of the expected response.
(Barbara Kuczun Nelson, Colby
This web site has received awards from CALICO and MERLOT. It makes good use of audio and music as well as short video as input to stimulate student interest. There are followup exercises to check comprehension and mastery of the grammatical focus of the multimedia stimuli.
(Juan Ramón de Arana, Ursinus
Exercises on this comprehensive web site are of two types: Self check exercises with automatic correction and feedback for the student and Instructor check exercises that can be sent by the student to a specified instructor e-mail address. The Instructor check exercises are usually open ended questions that appear at the end of a brief informational unit.
A series of short videos about different aspects of everyday life can be viewed on this web site. The video can be paused and repeated if students need additional input. After watching the video a cloze exercise tests comprehension as well as writing skills.
Taller hispano offers short videos related to Spanish and Spanish American culture and daily life. Students are provided with text boxes to record information about what they have heard in a guided note taking activity.
The online drills on this web site have two components: a brief grammar lesson and a related grammar quiz. The quizzes are self correcting Hot Potatoes format. Except for the automatic, instantaneous feedback these exercises are very traditional in their approach to teaching grammar, that is, a focus on forms.
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|Biblioteca Virtual Miguel
This virtual library offers the most comprehensive coverage of full text literary and scholarly works in the Spanish language. Although copyright restricts the presence of the most recent authors, there is a good representation of authors from both Spain and Spanish America from the early twentieth century and earlier.
Colibrí is part of the digital library project of the Secretaría de Educación Pública in Mexico. Although designed for K-12 instruction, the digital library contains modules of fiction and non-fiction that could be utilized in intermediate level classes. Based on textbooks, these web sites are highly illustrated. Most of them do not offer any exercises or instructional material.
|Lecturas Paso a
Paso (Centro Virtual Cervantes)
This web site from Centro Virtual Cervantes offers guided reading activities with background information on the reading selection, before reading activities, and after reading activities including interactive quizzes. There are three different levels of reading difficulty from which to select.
The literature section of this web site from Central Virtual Cervantes would be suitable for students in an introduction to Spanish literature class. There is an anthology of texts from reprentative time periods that contains audio files of readings and songs. There are no exercises or assessments.
This web site of "a-mejor," a non profit organization in Spain dedicated to improvement of educational success of children in primary and secondary schools, offers reading comprehension passages with follow up exercises and quizzes. The reading selections chronicle the travel adventures of a group of teenagers throughout Spain.
|El Mensual: An
intermediate audio Magazine (BBC)
El Mensual is a monthly magazine for intermediate level learners of Spanish. Students are able to listen to short audio clips of news stories or interviews and then test their comprehension through cloze exercises. There are also audio clips of popular songs with fill in the blank exercises to check comprehension of lyrics.
Proyecto Scherezade offers a collection of short stories, some with interactive exercises and audio files, for use in upper intermediate and advanced classes of Spanish. Many of the stories are published here for the first time.
and Teachers of Spanish (Ministerio
de Educación, Cultura y Deporte de España en el Reino
Tecla is an online magazine that offers reading selections, usually related to the history and culture of Spain and Spanish America, as well as post reading activities. There are three levels to select from. The magazine is easily downloaded as a PDF file.
|Literatura en Ciudad Seva
The literature section of this web site offers access to digital texts, particularly short stories. The stories represent a variety of literatures including translations of authors who do not write in Spanish. The full text access, however, presents many possible uses, including a source of texts for a course in translation studies.
|Palabra de escritor
This web site from the Secretaría de Educación Pública is designed to foment writing and literary analysis. There are several well done essays on the art of writing that could be used as outside reading for students in college level Spanish literature classes.
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| Civilization &
|The links listed below
are primarily web sites developed in Spain or Spanish America for
informational or instructional purposes. Because many were
developed for primary and secondary students the language is simpler
thus increasing accessibility for students of Spanish as
L2. The web sites also provide a basis for classroom
discussion of more complex issues such as historical bias and
una ventana al mundo cultural, artístico y político
Almendron.com is a very attractive web site visually. Parts of it are still in development but the image galleries in most sections are accessible. The cultural infomation could provide a good point of departure for writing activities in advanced Spanish classes.
(digital) Luis Angel Arango (Colombia)
This digital library offers an interesting selection of materials for those interested in the history of children's literature as well as those seeking authentic materials for use in intermediate/advanced Spanish classes. Many of the links lead to pdf files of published juvenile books. There are no instructional activities on this web site but the texts provide a point of departure for development of instructional materials.
Iberoamérica (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile,
Instituto de Historia)
Divided into three section -- Expansión europea (s. XIV, XV), Irrupción europea (s. XV, XVI), América colonial (s. XVI, XVII, XVIII) -- this comprehensive web site would be a great enhancement for an upper level civilization or culture course. Each section has a selection of brief texts and links to a web site and a bibliograph as well as brief music audio files. The web site is well illustrated and has hyperlinks for important concepts or proper names. There are many excerpts from primary source documents.
|Historia de la
This web site offers well illustrated reading selections on both world history and Mexican history. The Mexican history section includes primary source materials such as period photographs, letters and manuscripts. There are provocative questions for students at intervals in the reading selection and also at the end of the reading.
paralelas (Library of Congress)
Historias paralelas is a bilingual web site that surveys the common history of the United States and Spain. It is a joint project of the U.S. Library of Congress and the Biblioteca Nacional de España. The reading selections and hyperlinked documents would be a welcome addition to a class on Spanish or Spanish American civilization.
mexicanas (Universidad de Guadalajara)
Leyendas mexicanas consists of two sections -- Leyendas prehispánicas and Leyendas coloniales -- each of which has six short legends. Each page has an attractive illustration. Since there are no instructional activities, Leyendas mexicanas would need to be supplemented by instructor-developed materials. The reading level is appropriate for high intermediate or advanced learners.
Mundo Maya is a bilingual web site (the link above is to the Spanish version) that offers easy to read information about the Maya culture, both in historical perspective and in the present day. The different sections of this web site are: Arqueología, Naturaleza, Vida diaria, Historia, Artesanía, Leyendas, and a notes section. Reading selections could probably be used to supplement materials in third and fourth semester classes as well as more advanced classes. There are no exercises or quizzes but the readings could easily form the basis for a quiz on comprehension utilizing one of the test making tools such as Hot Potatoes.
A visit to the arqueological site of Monte Albán forms the basis for these reading selections. The readings are supplemented by vocabulary lists and hyperlinekd glosses for difficult words. There are also short comprehension quizzes for each reading selection. This web site is illustrated with photos of a student expedition to Oaxaca. The reading selections have some minor grammatical errors and awkward syntactic constructions. However, conceptually the web site offers some good models for Spanish instruction.
|Sur del Sur
Sur del Sur is a comprehensive, bilingual web site dedicated to the history of Argentina and its cultural manifestations. The reading selections are usually quite short and accompanied by attractive illustrations. Because of the abbreviated nature of the information found here, Sur del Sur would be most useful to accompany class activities that would be enhanced by a brief historical note or image. There are no exercises or questions for study on this web site.
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Language & Linguistics
|The web sites listed
below offer models for the teaching advanced Spanish grammar or Spanish
linguistics at the advanced undergraduate level. A few of the web
sites are at a slightly lower level but may be helpful for students who
need some remedial work.
y ortografía (Juan Manuel Soto
The grammar reviews and accompanying exercises are part of a larger web site dedicated to Spanish language and culture. Each grammar section offers a brief review with exercises for students to check their mastery of basic grammatical principles. There are also links to other pages that offer language instruction and tools such as dictionaries, verb conjugators, and spell check; a few of the links are no longer functional.
lingüística española (Ganesh Basdeo, University of
This web site was developed for an advanced level course in Spanish linguistics. The materials would be of interest to anyone developing or teaching a similar course. There are review questions, exercises, and diagrams to illustrate phonology, morphology, syntax.
|Introducción a la
lingüística hispánica (Sonia Ramírez
Wohlmuth, University of South Florida)
This web site contains chapter reviews in Powerpoint format to accompany Hualde, Olarrea, and Escobar's Introducción a la lingüística hispánica. There are also some review quizzes that utilize Hot Potatoes software.
|Lengua. Proyecto Aula: Lengua y Literatura
The language section of Proyecto Aula offers reviews of different grammar points with exercises. Some are web page format; others are to be printed out and completed as pencil and paper exercises. Most of the instructional materials are a traditional focus on forms approach.
This web site was prepared as a review for exams for secondary students in Spain. There are brief reviews covering an array of themes: specific grammar points, history of the Spanish language, the dissemination of Spanish in the Americas. Main points are presented schematically in diagrams and students have an opportunity to test their knowledge with short self correcting quizzes.
Sintaxis (Alfonso Sancho Rodríguez)
The two web sites contained here are part of a larger web site still in process. There is an extensive online grammar to explain linguistic concepts. There are also Powerpoints that can be downloaded for in-class use. The Powerpoints contain graphs and schemes that are not easily created in html format. The materials here would be useful in both advanced undergraduate and graduate classes on the structure of the Spanish language.
This web site is dedicated to common spelling errors in Spanish. It would be particularly useful in a Spanish for native speakers class. Students who have acquired Spanish through experience other than formal instruction usually have problems in distinguishing spelling of s, z, ce, ci; b, v; ll, y, etc.
Ortografía interactiva, like the web site above provides interactive exercises to help students learn to avoid common spelling errors. There are also several exercises on homophones in Spanish.
There are many resources available on this web site from the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Spain). Of linguistic interest is a tool for syntactic analysis with 70 model sentences in which each segment is tagged for syntactic properties.
| Mass Media
|The following list of web
sites are a selection of Spanish language mass media available through
the internet. These include news bureaus, online newspapers and
magazines, radio stations, and television stations.
The BBC web site provides coverage of international news with a focus on Latin America. In addition to the text news stories there are audio files and video clips. These media formats offer opportunities for students to monitor their comprehension skills as they learn of recent news events or listen to interviews with well known authors and artists.
|Las radios en
español, país por país
As the title indicates this web page offers a list of radio broadcasts in Spanish by country. In addition to Spain and Spanish America many other countries are represented in this list.
Prensa Escrita is a compilation of online daily newspapers throughout the Spanish speaking world as well as Canada and the United States. The listings are arranged by country.
A wide variety of online magazines are available on this web site organized by country. While most of the magazines offer full text others offer only a table of content service with a brief summary of the articles available in the print version.
Magazines in Spanish
The magazines listed on this web site are primarily literary magazines some of which publish original poems and short stories.
Latin American Broadcast Television
Zona Latina provides a list of Latin American broadcast television as well as a list of U.S. Spanish language television broadasters. There is limited availability of direct broadcast through the internet for some of the television stations.
|España -- Emisoras
This web site provides a list of television stations from Spain. Some of the stations offer direct broadcast; the audio is usually quite acceptable but images are of varying quality.
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